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Glossary. 



Fasciculate, growing in bundles. 



Fibrillose, clothed with little loose fibres. 



Fistulose, hollow, like a pipe. 



Flocci, threads. 



Furfuraceous, brawny. 



Fusiform, spindle-shaped. 



Grumous, clotted, as the contents of some cell. 



Heterogeneous, when adjacent parts are different in structure. 



Homogeneous, when they are similar. 



Hyaline, transparent. 



Hygrophanous, having a watry look when moist, more or less opaque when dry. 

 Hymenium, the fructifying surface. 



Hypothecium, the part beneath the nucleus in sphceriacei, &c, especially when 



it is compact. 

 Immersae, sunk in the matrix. 

 Incusse, sunk as jewels in a die. 

 Indebiscent, not splitting, except by decay. 

 Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped. 



Inserted, growing immediately from the matrix, like a graft from its stock. 



Laccate, varnished. 



Lacunose, pitted over. 



Lophiostomse, having the aperture crested. 



Marginate, having a distinct border. 



Matrix, anything on which a Fungus grows. 



Moniliform, like a necklace, beaded. 



Mucedinous, like a mould. 



Mycelium, spawn, which may be filamentous, or vesicular. 



Nucleus, the hymenium of perithecia, generally gelatinous. 



Obtectse, covered by the cuticle. 



Obturatse, bunged up, applied to certain sphcerioe. 



Obvallatse, walled up, similarly used. 



Ostiolum, the mouth of a perithecium. 



Papillate, covered with little elevations. 



Patelloeform, saucer-shaped. 



Peridium, a general covering, as in a puff-ball. 



Peronate, when a stem has a stocking-like coat. 



Perithecia, the bottle-like, fruit bearing bodies in sphceriacei which may be 

 naked, sunk in a stroma, or covered by a portion of the matrix. 



Pertusse, pierced at the apex of the perithecium by the separation of the ostio- 

 lum. 



Pileus, the hat-shaped receptacle in mushrooms, &c. 

 Pruinose, frosted, or covered with bloom like a plum, 

 Pulvinate, cushion-shaped. 

 Rameales, growing on twigs. 



Resupinate, spread over the matrix, and having the hymenium upwards, and 



not beneath, as in the mushroom. 

 Ehizomorphoid, like roots. 

 Rimose, cracked. 



